[B4Ranch]

a couple of pictures that help explain it better are here

Be sure to give your elected officials, local, state and federal a big kiss for this mess. Yes, include our President in the kissing.

[inquest]

Sounds like a somewhat smaller-scale version of what's going on with NAFTA, the EU, the FTAA, etc.

[ServesURight]

Henry Lamb BUMP

[The Mayor]

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[spodefly]

BTTT

[glock rocks]

bump! I'll read in depth tomorrow.

[foreverfree]

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[trek]

I know this story.

What about the Imperial Senate?

Don't worry about the Senate. The Emperor has dissolved the Senate.

But how will he maintain control?

The Emperor will rule directly through the Regional Governors.

But don't worry. I think the good guys won in the end.

[marsh2]

Regional government is here in the form of multi-county Habiat Conservation Plans under the ESA.

5C - the "Five County Plan" was hatched by NOAA fisheries and the State to get 5 northern CA coho counties to agree through MOA or MOU to do certain things. It started out with a road manual to be adopted by the Counties for their own maintenance or county roads, culverts and bridges. Now it is moving on to a push to adopt model ordinances to implement the federal ESA - such as road grading and water use ordinances. They also want a fish element adopted into the County Gneral Plan so the County planning dept,. can implement the ESA through mitigations imposed on planning permits.

Although we are one of the counties, I believe we convinced the Supervisors some years back to remove our signature from the MOA.

In my mind, it would be turning over the independent primary planning authority of elected County representatives for land and resource use on private lands to a federal agency for its purposes. Not a smart move, but everyone seems to be doing it. (Riverside and others just passed a joint HCP agreement.)

[Happy2BMe]

BUMPING FOR REFERENCE.

[B4Ranch]

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